About Last Week I feel bad for Mel Tucker right now. Not THAT bad, of course. There is a limit to how bad you can feel for someone making $26,000 per day to produce Indiana-level results. But I do have some sympathy. After all, while many things that have been his fault this year, this one is on the previous regime. Mark Dantonio built a machine. An amazing machine. A powerful machine. A wonderous, marvelous, fantastical Michigan-Hating Machine. An energy-producing perpetual aggrievement device that violated the first law of thermodynamics (which was fine, because “laws,” and the enforcement thereof, weren’t really a relevant construct for that machine). And he didn’t just use that machine to take on Michigan. He used that machine to power every aspect of his program. And it made that entire program better, at least if you limit the scope of “better” to on-field success. When Mel Tucker came in, he went a different direction. He tried to power his program on hope and hype.
going to pass some policies now. so people thought well we got some change, but what happened to the hope machine? the hope machine got turned off. so trump doesn t want to turn off his machine. he wants both. alice, what did you make of mr. trump, president trump s appearance at the c.i.a.? i think he, the fact that it was his first major appearance after giving his inauguration address, i think it was significant. there has been some criticism he has given towards the intelligence community with regard to the russian hacking and what so forth. it was important for him to go there and say, i am 100% behind you. no one have your back more than the trump administration and that was important to hear. and judging from their response, it was very well received. i think it was important. but you also have to keep in mind, this is donald trump. it was his first opportunity to really address the media after there was some reports about the crowd size. and this was his opportunity to ad
and this is starting point. take me to new york i d love to see l.a. that s a good way to start your morning. good morning, everybody. that on not on my play list. our panel this morning, ron brownste brownstein s with us, he s a cnn senior political analyst, editorial director at national journal, will cain is with us, he s a columnist for the blaze.com and ben jones joins us this morning former obama white house special adviser has written a new book called rebuild the dream. how is that for promoting your book? getting it out early. happy to help. happy to help. we re going to talk not only about the book but also your resignation from the obama cabinet, i want to hear all the inside scoop on that. first, though, we got to talk about the tornadoes, that was an amazing nearly four hours, absolute devastation there. yeah, my hometown and not far from my hometown. it was pretty scary to see. i had buddies calling me saying they had to evacuate buildings in